I’ve only ever had a contract with one, so don’t want to recommend anything. Don’t want to be the guy with one pair of cans recommending them to people without knowing that they are actually kind of crappy. 
I’ve heard good things about Mullvad who Mozilla use for their Firefox VPN. They accept cash and crypto so put their money where their mouth is.
I got a real cheap deal with Surfshark for 3.5 years
Seems to work fine
I’m not touting them as anything else, just that its working out for me for now
I tried to sign up with them yesterday and my bank blocked the transaction. 
I guess I’ll need to pay with crypto.
That’s a good sign that they are doing something right! My bank blocks transfers to/from crypto exchanges, I need to go through their fraud dept to clear transactions. When I transfer money to people their website says that they’ve received my “request”. No, it’s an instruction. 
It’s like they think it’s their money these days!
Just a heads up on Waterfox. It didn’t give a shit about an expired certificate. Mull and Firefox did.
Just came across this
It lets you upload a file for 24 hours and link to it
Up to 5GB in size
End to end encryption and self-expiring
It can do over 5GB but you need to keep the window open until it’s downloaded,
it uses peer-to-peer file transfer in that instance
End to end encryption, self expiring
To improve realism with drums I figure
on using drumgizmo [free drum plugin]
BW recommended it way back, I never got around to using it but a recent video impressed. Key is the bleed from the ambient mics, and some of the drumkit samples are more than a gig in total so there’s good dynamic variation.
What put me off a bit was the single tom plus one floor tom on the particular kit I wanted. Which means there needs to be some duplicating, re routing and tuning of those two toms if you want to emulate a proper drumwanka kit and for pre produced MIDI fills to play right.
Just stumbled onto Blocktube and giving it a go. It’s a browser addon for youtube that lets you block suggestions by a number of parameters, including channel. Youtube suggestions for news queries are always dominated by lying corporate media, so might as well block all of those.
Gave neovide a whirl, it’s a GUI app that’s neovim with some graphical enhancements. Written in Rust, which means long build times with the webdev style of package adding and static compilation. Build time in a Manjaro update, just for neovide:
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 14m 35s
Deleting…
Just heard of Kakoune on DistroTube’s youtube channel. It’s a text editor based on Vim, but instead of the way of, verb then noun, it flips that so that the object of interest is visually selected before doing any edit operation, with what looks like some useful selection tools not available in more pedestrian editors. And there is no need for separate normal mode and visual mode. Lot’s of other differences too. Hopefully I’ll get some free time to try it soon. It looks nice from the outside.
This is supposedly something of a vimtutor equivalent for kakoune.
Now onto the command line browser, Bombadillo. It handles gopher and gemini protocols.
I use w3m from time to time, handy for some sites like the old gnu style ones with terrible CSS that span the whole page. Not so much with the modern web.
I had my run with command line browsers (w3m, links, lynx) during a summer of mostly command line everything. Yea, CSS really screws up viewing pages as text only. I would think that could be easy enough for text-based browsers to workaround, but I haven’t seen one that does.
On Bombadillo, I ran into a snag for gopher. All the gopher search sites I have seen are FTS links (whatever that is), and Bombadillo seems to not support it, only opening MAP links. Searching brought up nothing.
I’m an idgit. For FTS links, enter the link number, then enter a search term. I was expecting a search site to pop up after entering the link number, which doesn’t happen.
Just caught a mention of Blockbench, which is a FOSS, cross-platform, low poly 3D modeler and animator. The benefit of this over something like Blender is that it is 1000X simpler to use, much more suitable for beginners and less serious tinkering hobbyists. It is also available as a live web app. www.blockbench.net
A quick tutorial of it here: https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=WbyCbA1c8BM
Still using Waterfox at an alternative to Firefox. Looks like some sewage is bubbling up around Mozilla.
Also, some past discussion on Mozilla and Firefox.
Anyone know of a good Firefox based addon for text expansion shortcuts? For example, typing the shortcut ‘tx’ might expand to ‘This is some text demonstrating text expansion’, or a key or combo might be required before the expansion happens such as typing ‘txt’ shift+space.
Any of you running media server software, local or otherwise? Jellyfin seems ok. I couldn’t get a couple of client applications running on a tv to behave with it, but accessing it from a browser seems to be fine.
I have a NAS drive, but I just access the files like a Luddite. I used to have Kodi on a little Android box to access it and I have a TVR thing that can too, but not any actual server server.